My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
- Released on
- Runtime
- 53 mins
This video documentary centers on the questions of civil liberties and cultural differences in a society beginning to open as one woman searches for her own ethnic roots, identity and family history in Ukraine. Issues of human rights, anti-Semitism, homophobia, feminism and a divided and economically-depressed country are encountered as Barbara Hammer, a feminist activist and pioneer of lesbian cinema, return to a “homeland” full of struggling as people search for a new post-glasnost identity.
This video documentary centers on the questions of civil liberties and cultural differences in a society beginning to open as one woman searches for her own ethnic roots, identity and family history in Ukraine. Issues of human rights, anti-Semitism, homophobia, feminism and a divided and economically-depressed country are encountered as Barbara Hammer, a feminist activist and pioneer of lesbian cinema, return to a “homeland” full of struggling as people search for a new post-glasnost identity.
Cast
- Barbara Hammer
- Vera Berdashevich
- Vadim Bezprozvany
- Greesha Felanovsky
- Alexander Ficinko
- Natalia Filonenko
Director
- Barbara Hammer
Producers
- Barbara Hammer
